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• Oil shales and tar sands : a bibliography. (United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center, 1977), by United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• A laboratory study of water encroachment in oil-filled sand columns (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1941), by Frank G. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bureau of Mines method for determining porosity : a list of porosities of oil sands (United States Bureau of Mines, 1949), by Cleo Griffith Rall and David Benjamin Taliaferro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Injection rates and pressures for water flooding mid-continent oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1949), by Peter Grandone and J. B. Holleyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Résumé of problems relating to edgewater encroachment in oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1938), by F. G. Miller, H. C. Fowler, United States Bureau of Mines, and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Annual Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laboratory studies of the gravitational drainage of oil from unconsolidated sands (United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1949), by R. V. Higgins and G. B. Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recovery of oil from sands by the "gas drive" (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1930), by Joseph Chalmers, D. B. Taliaferro, I. H. Nelson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selective oiling and table concentration of phosphatic sands in the Land-Pebble district of Florida (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, 1932), by R. G. O'Meara, J. W. Pamplin, Southern Phosphate Corporation, Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, and University of Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tar sands (rock asphalt) of Kentucky : a review (Kentucky Geological Survey, 1976), by Preston McGrain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2008), by David S. Ortiz, Brian Shannon, Aimee E. Curtright, Joel Darmstadter, and Michael Toman (JSTOR ebook)

• Oil shales and tar sands : a bibliography. (United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center, 1977), by United States. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Laboratory study of the hot-water process for separating hydrocarbons from surface deposits of bituminous sandstones near Edna, Calif. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1948), by G. B. Shea and R. V. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rising oil prices and dependence on hostile regimes : the urgent case for Canadian oil : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, March 31, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere (2007- ) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Energy from U.S. and Canadian tar sands technical, environmental, economic, legislative, and policy aspects : report prepared for the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Library of Congress. Science Policy Research Division, Paul F. Rothberg, Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs Division, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Energy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Production and processing of U.S. tar sands, an environmental assessment (Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ;, 1976), by N. A. Frazier, Ohio). Resource Extraction and Handling Division Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (Cincinnati, and Ohio) Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory (Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final environmental impact statement on the Sunnyside combined hydrocarbon lease conversion (The Bureau, 1984), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Draft environmental impact statement on the Sunnyside combined hydrocarbon lease conversion (The Bureau, 1983), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final air quality analysis for the combined hydrocarbon EIS, eastern and south-central Utah (Aerocomp, Inc., 1984), by Inc Aerocomp and United States. Bureau of Land Management. Utah State Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Department of the Interior draft environmental impact statement on the Circle Cliffs combined hydrocarbon lease conversion (The Bureau, 1984), by United States Bureau of Land Management, Utah, and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water flooding of oil sands in Illinois (Urbana, Ill., 1943), by Frederick Squires and Alfred Hannam Bell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recent development on the Ayers anticline : recent drilling northwest of St. Francisville, Lawrence County, Illinois (Dept. of Registration and Education, Div. of the State Geological Survey, 1928), by Alfred Hannam Bell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water flooding of oil sands in Butler and Greenwood Counties, Kans. (United States Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1956), by J. P. Powell and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of water-flooding of oil sands in Kansas (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1944), by Peter Grandone (page images at HathiTrust)

• Production of oil from tar sand and other hydrocarbon deposits : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Resources and Materials Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on S. 2717 ... H.R. 7242 ... September 4, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O., 1980), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Resources and Materials Production (page images at HathiTrust)
• Energy from U.S. and Canadian tar sands technical, environmental, economic, legislative, and policy aspects : report prepared for the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Library of Congress. Science Policy Research Division, Paul F. Rothberg, Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs Division, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Energy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inventory of strippable tar sands in western Missouri (Geology and Land Survey Division, Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, 1977), by Jack S. Wells and Missouri. Division of Geology and Land Survey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The vast North American resource potential of oil shale, oil sands, and heavy oils, parts 1 and 2 : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 23, 2005 and June 30, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water flooding of oil sands in Washington, County, Okla. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1951), by C. H. Riggs and William C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Applying Marx and Langenheim calculations to the prediction of oil recovery by steamflooding in Venango sands (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1969), by Avis W. Effinger, James A. Wasson, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

• A method for determining the water content of oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1940), by David Benjamin Taliaferro and George B. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Determination of porosity by a Bureau of Mines method : a list of porosities of oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1954), by Cleo G. Rall, D. B. Taliaferro, and H. C. Hamontre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of clays on the permeability of reservoir sands to various saline waters, Wyoming (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1955), by Oren C. Baptist, S. A. Sweeney, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clay minerals and permeabilities of Appalachian oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1957), by E. M. Tignor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Formation damage estimated from water sensitivity tests, Patrick Draw area, Wyoming (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1964), by Eliot J. White, Carlon S. Land, and Oren C. Baptist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical properties and clay mineral contents affecting susceptibility of oil sands to water damage, Powder River Basin, Wyo. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1962), by Eliot J. White, Carlon S. Land, and Oren C. Baptist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Productivity of oil wells and inherent influence of gas : oil ratios and water saturation (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1942), by R. V. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method for determining simultaneously the oil and water saturations of oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Cleo Griffith Rall and David Benjamin Taliaferro (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method of determining porosity : a list of porosities of oil sands (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1937), by D. B. Taliaferro, E. J. Dewees, and Theodore W. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final environmental impact statement on the Uintah Basin synfuels development (The Bureau, 1983), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)

• U.S. tar sand oil forecasts, 1985-1995 (U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Assistant Administrator for Applied Analysis :, 1979), by Lester W Schramm, United States. Energy Information Administration. Division of Oil and Gas Analysis, and United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Applied Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Utah combined hydrocarbon leasing regional EIS ([Richfield District Office, Bureau of Land Management], 1983), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Richfield District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Draft environmental impact statement on the P R Spring combined hydrocarbon lease conversion (Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver Service Center, Division of Environmental Impact Statement Services, 1985), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Division of EIS Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final environmental impact statement on the P R Spring combined hydrocarbon lease conversion (Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver Service Center, Division of EIS Services, 1985), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Division of EIS Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Utah combined hydrocarbon leasing regional final EIS ([Richfield District Office, Bureau of Land Management], 1984), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Richfield District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunnyside combined hydrocarbon lease conversion : socioeconomic technical report (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1984), by David W. South, Argonne National Laboratory, United States Bureau of Land Management, and Argonne National Laboratory. Economic and Social Sciences Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Utah combined hydrocarbon leasing land use plan amendments and new lease tracts : record of decision. (Richfield District Office, Bureau of Land Management?], 1984), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Richfield District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Potential hydrologic impacts of a tar-sand industry in 11 special tar sand areas in eastern Utah (U.S. Geological Survey, 1983), by K. L. Lindskov, Geological Survey (U.S.), and United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Potential hydrologic impacts of a tar-sand industry in 11 special tar sand areas in eastern Utah (U.S. Geological Survey, 1984), by K. L. Lindskov, Geological Survey (U.S.), and United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effect of clays on the permeability of reservoir sands to various saline waters, Wyoming (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1955), by Oren C. Baptist, S. A. Sweeney, and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)

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